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United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivers a speech at the ceremonies held in Frederick, Maryland that honored former Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney (Class of 1795). Warren, who offers a brief overview Taney's legal and political career, comments on Taney's judicial...
Location: I-WarrenE-1955-1
Subject: Legal Affairs, Politics and Government
Format: Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1940-1959
Publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company
Volume 2 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1940-1959
Publisher: Harrisburg, PA: The Telegraph Press
Volume 3 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Education, Politics and Government, Science and Technology
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
Roy Wilkins writes to John M. Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, asking how the Convention intends to implement the 1964 commitment to fully representative delegations. Wilkins includes a copy of a letter to Chairman Ray Bliss on the same subject (posted...
Location: I-Friends-1986-11
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
This is a carbon copy of a letter from Roy Wilkins to Democratic National Committee Chairman Ray C. Bliss, in which Wilkins implores the Party to ensure integrated delegations. Wilkins writes to Chairman John M. Bailey on the same subject (posted...
Location: I-Friends-1986-11
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
Publisher: York, PA: York Composition Company, Inc.
Volume 4 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College Administration, Dickinson College History, Education, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
United States House of Representatives Minority Leader Gerald Ford writes to Paul R. Walker (Class of 1921), a longtime contributing editor and columnist for the Harrisburg Patriot-News. Ford thanks Walker for lunch during a recent visit to Harrisburg.
Location: I-Friends-1982-6
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
The Women's Resource Center Newsletter is produced by the Women's Resource Committee of Dickinson College.
Selected highlights from this issue include:
Location: RG 8/206, B1, F7
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine, LGBT History, Politics and Government, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1960-1979
The 10th Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "Have We Overcome,” as the schedule includes a dramatic interpretation entitled, “An Evening with Frederick Douglass,” a lecture recital by...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F2
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1960-1979
A commemorative envelope for the S.S. Dickinson Victory, which was a "Victory" ship built in California during World War II. The ship launched on February 9, 1945.
Location: I-Friends-2005-2
Subject: Politics and Government
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 2000-2019
